Google Cloud Platform Administration

Design highly available, scalable, and secure cloud solutions on GCP

Ranjit Singh Thakurratan

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9781788624350
• eBook ISBN: 9781788626606
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Computer Science
• Subtopic: Cloud Computing
• Index: Computer Science

Make the most of GCP's offerings to manage your data center workload and optimize deployments

Key Features

• Discover new techniques to administer, manage, and deploy applications on GCP
• Understand effective solutions for storing, retrieving, and deploying your container images
• Explore various offerings of GCP for operations and security

Book Description

On-premise data centers are costly to manage. If you need a data center but don't want to deal with a physical one, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is the solution. With GCP, you can build, test, and deploy applications on Google's infrastructure.

Google Cloud Platform Administration begins with GCP fundamentals, with the help of which you will deploy your first app and gain an understanding of Google Cloud architecture and services. Furthermore, you will learn how to manage Compute, networking, and storage resources. As you make your way through the book, you will learn how to track and manage GCP's usage, monitoring, and billing access control. You will also be able to manage your GCP's access and permissions. In the concluding chapters, you will explore a list of different developer tools for managing and interacting with the GCP platform.

By the end of this book, you will have learned how to effectively deploy workloads on GCP.

What you will learn

• Understand all GCP Compute components
• Deploy and manage multiple GCP storage options
• Manage and utilize the networking resources offered by GCP
• Explore the functionalities and features of the GCP Container
• Understand the workings of GCP operations such as monitoring and error reporting
• Discover an immune GCP using its identity and security options

Who this book is for

Google Cloud Platform Administration is for administrators, cloud architects, and engineers who want to leverage the upcoming Google Cloud Platform. Some basic understanding of cloud computing will be useful.

Google Cloud Platform Operations

In this chapter, we will learn about the Stackdriver suite of products that allows us to manage and debug our application. Stackdriver provides you with debug, enhanced logging, error reporting, and monitoring services for your applications. We will start with Stackdriver monitoring, which lets you monitor your applications deployed in the cloud. We will then look into its real-time logging and error reporting capabilities. We will next look at Stackdriver's application platform management (APM) capabilities by learning about its debugger, trace, and profiler features.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

• Stackdriver monitoring and logging
• Stackdriver error reporting
• Stackdriver debugger
• Strackdriver profiler
• Stackdriver Trace

Stackdriver monitoring and logging

Stackdriver monitoring provides you the ability to monitor your applications deployed on GCP. Stackdriver also allows you to monitor your applications deployed in AWS as well. You can monitor your applications for performance and uptime, and all these metrics and events are collected and stored by Stackdriver. Stackdriver monitoring also generates dashboards for easy visual consumption of the data. The feature also integrates with alerting so timely alerts can be sent out for any event. Remember that monitoring and logging are closely integrated.

A better way to explore Stackdriver monitoring is to set it up for a compute engine instance. We will discuss its concepts as we go through the setup.

I will be following Google's official documentation example here, so it will be easier for you to relate what we do here with the official guide.

Before we begin, let's review all the steps in this exercise:

1. Create a compute engine instance
2. Install an Apache HTTP server
3. Create a Stackdriver account and install agents
4. Create checks and policies
5. Create dashboards and alerts
6. Review logs

As with every other exercise we have done before, let's begin by creating a project first. If you don't already have one, go ahead and create a project called stackdriver-test-project:

$ gcloud projects create stackdriver-test-123 --name stackdriver-test-project Create in progress for [https://cloudresourcemanager.googleapis.com/v1/projects/stackdriver-test-123]. Waiting for [operations/cp.7718643467432378132] to finish...done. $ gcloud projects list PROJECT_ID NAME PROJECT_NUMBER kubecluster-206421 KubeCluster 944435304139 premium-bearing-206421 My First Project 766565060122 stackdriver-test-123 stackdriver-test-project 968775468325 

Project IDs and project numbers are unique. Your IDs and numbers will differ from what you see here.

Now that we have the project created, let's enable billing for it. Before we do that, let's make sure that we set our project to stackdriver-test-project:

$ gcloud config list [core] account = [email protected] disable_usage_reporting = True project = kubecluster-206421 $ gcloud config unset project Unset property [core/project]. $ gcloud config list [core] account = [email protected] disable_usage_reporting = True Your active configuration is: [abcd] $ gcloud config set project stackdriver-test-123 Updated property [core/project]. $ gcloud config list [core] account = hidden@g...

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright and Credits
• Dedication
• Packt Upsell
• Contributors
• Preface
• Introduction to Google Cloud Platform
• Google Cloud Platform Compute
• Google Cloud Platform Storage
• Google Cloud Platform Networking
• Google Cloud Platform Containers
• Google Cloud Platform Operations
• Google Cloud Platform Identity and Security
• Google Cloud Platform Billing
• Google Cloud Platform Tools
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